When I begin to read Kafka there is one question that always comes up in my head, Am I doing the right thing by starting another? This question just comes not because of some catastrophe caused by the predcessor but with the mind doubting if I would be able to do justice to just another one of his....
'As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin. '
Kafka's sentences often deliver an unexpected impact just before the period—that being the finalizing meaning and focus. This is achieved due to the construction of certain sentences in German which require that the verb be positioned at the end of the sentence. Such constructions are not duplicable in English, so it is up to the translator to provide the reader with the same effect found in the original text.
The story moves forward with how greg n his family deal with this metamorphosis....
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that is one of the shortest reviews of kafka's book ! no actually mine is shorter! i just say at the end '' what was that? ''
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